NETWISDOM SAN I/O PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND TROUBLESHOOTING

The NetWisdom™ family of SAN I/O performance monitoring and SAN troubleshooting products provides a new level of troubleshooting and storage performance optimization on complex, heterogeneous Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks. SAN administrators can implement all or portions of the NetWisdom family of products to improve SAN performance, verify service level agreements, and provide deep SAN monitoring and analysis on multiple storage tiers.

Diagnosis and Prevention in SAN Performance Management

IT organizations that manage high levels of complexity in their Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructures require a sophisticated set of capabilities for diagnosing and preventing SAN slowdowns. These slowdowns are usually reported as a slow response time for applications. Your SAN complexity is driven by the heterogeneity of your storage subsystems, host bus adapters (HBAs), operating systems, fabric switches, Wide Area Networks (WANs), multi-site replication, storage/tape virtualization, and the continued growth of your data and bandwidth utilization. The consolidation of your infrastructure and SAN services complicates your SAN management efforts and ability to do effective SAN troubleshooting.

Standard Storage Resource Management (SRM) products cannot provide the sophisticated diagnosis and prevention capabilities necessary to maintain such complex, heterogeneous, fast-changing SANs. Acute storage performance problems and outages must be diagnosed swiftly, without vendor fingerpointing or time wasted in waiting for the appropriate SAN monitoring tools. Simultaneously, chronic problems must be proactively detected and resolved before they become acute. To prevent chronic problems, on-going IT practices must include baseline comparisons of Input/Output (I/O) performance, bandwidth utilization, and average I/O completion times to verify that changes in your hardware, firmware, or configuration do not adversely impact your business-critical applications.

NetWisdom Family of Products

NetWisdom consists of a family of products that can be used to achieve different levels of sophistication in SAN I/O performance monitoring. The NetWisdom architecture maximizes the SAN administrator’s ability to implement varying NetWisdom configurations, based on the needs of the SAN or SAN tier, and to add product components incrementally as budget and time allow.